
Town Planning Consultants Heritage Specialists and Architects
Choose from our comprehensive range of services, specialising in planning, architecture, heritage, urban design, and rural development. We can provide expert advice on architectural and planning issues encompassing small-scale developments through to large schemes.
Our planning consultants have years of experience working with a range of clients. Whether you are a homeowner, developer, business owner or a representative of a public sector body, we can help.
Our planners have worked in the public and private sectors, and have excellent working relations with Local Planning Authorities. This often proves invaluable and is a key to our success.
Our approachable and experienced design team is composed of architects, architectural assistants, designers and technicians, who offer comprehensive architectural design services from concept through to completion.
We have worked on numerous schemes affecting Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site. We have the expertise and specialist knowledge to achieve success with your project regardless of its size.
Obtaining planning permission for rural development can provide you with that home in the countryside that you’ve always dreamed of, or a more relaxed way of life.
For farmers and landowners, it can also bring about significant gains and help to transform and maximise the value of your rural property.
We have a talented group of planners and urban designers who can work with you to create outward-looking inclusive designs which will be supported by local Planning Authorities.
We have extensive experience with the many types of planning appeals, from written representations to informal hearings and public inquiries.
Enforcement and the Submission of Lawful Use; Corrective Planning and Listed Building Applications
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We operate nationwide with offices based in Derbyshire and South Yorkshire. We have dedicated offices in:
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Here at Planning & Design Practice, we have a proven track record of helping clients reach their goals, regardless of the size of the project.
Our town planners, architects and architectural assistants can help with design proposals, planning permissions, feasibility studies, appeals support, advice on heritage matters and more.
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We worked with the local planning authority, Derbyshire Dales District Council to prepare a truly individual design that took precedent from the street’s alternating profiles of gables fronting the highway and running parallel.

Bedding in – what last year’s changes to Class Q mean in practice for those looking to convert barns to homes
As we reported significant changes to the Class Q legislation were introduced in 2024. Eight months on, Chartered Town Planner Richard Pigott looks at what these changes mean in practice for those looking to convert barns into homes.

Barns and UK Building Regulations: A guide
Our Senior Architect David Symons presents a guide to the planning considerations of using Class Q Permitted Development Rights to create new homes and the technical realities involved in converting these buildings in order to meet UK Building Regulations.

Consent for Green Belt workshop conversion
PDP are pleased to announce that planning consent has been granted for the change of use of a workshop to form a single new home at The Flourish, Dale Abbey, Ilkeston.
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